The Alkdorian Empire wrote:Well, it’s not like I said it was work in progress or anything. Of course, it is poorly designed. It’s a draft before I get to finalizing it. If you have suggestions to aide with writing a cosmic being I’m all ears.
Like seriously, I am. I’ve been wanting to write such a character but I just don’t know how and it’s frustrating. As my lore demands it.
I'm by no means and expert but when you want to write a 'cosmic being' (whatever that entails), you really have to take into account how it's going to sit in your universe.
>As my lore demands it.
This, this is what I don't know and what you need to figure out if you want to write this in a way which works. Now generalizing the term 'cosmic being' as some sort of insurmountable or omnipotent or generally "powerful" force, you need to take into consideration how this is going to interact with your verse' and if you're planning on using it/them/whatever in forum interactions, how things are going to interact with everyone else. Generally you want to impose limitations of sorts in what is and isn't going to happen and this is not limited to direct limitations in capability. Yes, whatever you may be writing could have the capability to do whatever whenever on paper but in practice you have to nail-down exactly what is going to happen. Does it have to do with how the thing thinks? Does it even think in the conventional sense at those 'high cosmic scales'? Perhaps this post-thought state can be leveraged by parties 'below' this being to trick its automatic functions into benefiting them. In general I feel like it's best to treat things at this scale less as characters or people and more like tools, laws, or mechanisms with defined functions in relation to defined situations. At a certain point you may end up with something which more or less functions as another key aspect of reality, a fundamental force or the likes. Now the important part of actually integrating the 'cosmic being' into canon is figuring out how it's going to work from a worldbuilding perspective if it's going to work at all. Does your world have a place for this sort of 'being'? Eldritch horrors don't pop-into every single narrative setting because theoretically they 'simply can'. You are the grand authority over your own work, find out if the inclusion is going to be good for your writing. Is the 'being' going to drive some sort of plot? Are there interesting interactions between the being's consequences and the current verse'? Does the 'being' break the tone of the setting? Just get this figured out so that you can actually get the addition going smoothly in-verse', something as big as a 'cosmic being' if the thing's actually going to have consequences is going to be rather jarring if you don't handle the introduction of it into the verse' well. Now if you're planning on bringing this into universes other than your own, a bit more thought is going to have to go into it. In your own verse' you can get away with stating capabilities and not elaborating, in RPs doing that is a good way to get booted-out if not rejected. If you're going to use it to interact, make sure you have a good system for cross-universe interaction, even if it's only for that. Having at least a framework for a system establishes ways to reason whether something or something else is going to happen, it allows for discussion with other participants rather than just shouting matches. I know working out reasoning for something which isn't conventionally supposed to conform to human reason is a bit tone-breaking but it's really the only thing you can do if you want to bring whatever you're writing into a proper RP environment.
I have no real way of capping this off so just pretend this bit is something smooth.
